A New Way of Ninja, (Naruto)

35: Questions

[OP: Will.I.Am.--"Colors"]

The rest of that day passed in a blur for the heroes--they were so tired from not sleeping all night for nearly two days in a row.

At some point the kids knew they'd been taken back to Leaf Village, which at some point the war had moved closer to without them knowing it, but by then they were so sleepy they hardly remembered who moved them or why.

When Momo woke up, it was late afternoon and she smelled coffee, the dark coffee the ninja had, nothing like the Starbucks-like shops of her own city.

She ached all over when she sat up.

"Where are we?" she asked.

"Oh hey, girl." Camie was by the window with a cup of coffee. "You should try this. It's like the darkest drip I've ever had. I think my heart is gonna have to break dance."

"Camie, whose house is this? This isn't the Kage house," Momo said.

"Ey? Oh, I think it's the Hyugas' house," Camie said. "I mean, it looks like it, and there's, like, a lot of Haruka in the yard, so that would make sense, right?"

Momo rubbed her eyes and crawled over the floor mats to look. "Well...it is...but why are we here? The Hyuga family doesn't like us."

"I dunno, fahm. I was spaced out when we got here," Camie said. "Do you have a hair brush in your bag or, like, your arm or something?"

"Uh, sure, here." Momo pulled one out of her bag and handed it over.

"I brought my toothbrush, but I was afraid to ask where the bathrooms was," Camie remarked. "But then Hinata's little sister came in and told me to use the one down the hall, so I took a shower too. I've never seen that much dirt come off me..."

Momo wasn't listening to her that closely, which was not unusual for her with Camie, until she heard Camie say "The Sand Siblings."

"Wait, what about them?" she interrupted.

"It's like I just told you," Camie said. "They're going home. Everyone is. We've been asleep for, like, 12 hours. Hanabi told me most of the villages are taking what's left of their armies and going home to start recuperating. Sasuke got arrested, but no one knows where the other perps who started this war went. Madara is dead, Obito is dead, but Snake Man's gang is nowhere. As far as we all know, all the other Akatsuki are dead, but it's got them tripping to think anyone is still out there."

"I can see why, but the Sand...but we've hardly had a chance to talk..." Momo shook her head. "They can't just go now. I've got to get dressed--oh, I am dressed."

"Uh, yeah, if you woke up in different clothes, I'd have a few questions," Camie said.

"I need to change. These clothes are filthy," Momo said. "Uh, can you...?"

"Oh, sure. The bathroom is that way." Camie pointed.

Momo got cleaned and dressed in record time. Then she noticed that Shine was nowhere to be seen.

When she came into the Hyugas' foyer/place-to-wait-for-someone-to-come-get-you (but with nicer chairs), she found Hinata sitting in there with Shoto and Bakugo.

"Where are the DJs?" she asked.

Shoto shrugged. "They weren't here when I woke up."

Wally was more used to all-nighters and had been less dead to the world than they were, so likely he'd woken up sooner also.

"Shine's not popular with the Hyugas' head member," Bakugo said. "The shy girl got them to let us crash here because we saved X-Boy, and ended the war, but they're not exactly friendly with us, so she left to go talk to that old granny kage."